Seeing and Expecting Great Things from Jesus

Over the last few months, I had a sense of loss and bewilderment.

Where was I going? What is going on? I had this sickening sense of being lost without any real direction. I had been here, before, that sense of going nowhere and having nothing to look forward to.

I even lamented my current status, without the regular 40-hour a week job which so many people fight for.

Then I talked with someone, and he reminded me of Abraham:

"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." (Hebrews 11:8)

Abraham, didn't know where he was going, but He knew the One directing him to the Promised Land, and He trusted Him.

Faith is not about believing something to make it true. Faith is about placing our trust in Someone because He is true:

"Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised." (Hebrews 11:11)

I had also learned that even when we know where we are going, it's still not enough to quell our fears. In Mark 4, the disciples cried out to Jesus: "Don't you care that we are perishing?!"

Of course Jesus cared! He quieted the storm with one word, and then reproached His disciples for their lack of faith.

Their reaction is beyond telling:

"40And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? 41And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" (Mark 4:40-41)

Notice that Jesus asks the disciples why they are fearful--and they get more afraid!

They still saw Jesus as some man, a great man and wise teacher, but just a man nonetheless.

We need to see Jesus as our Savior in all our situations. We need to see Him as someone who is not only with us in every storm, but ready to calm the storms in our lives, ready to care for us, not just watch over us.

That's what it means for us--that we need to expect more things from Him, to see Jesus as our loving, caring, wonderful Savior!